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Our Opinion

The Samsung Galaxy S8 is a significantly better phone, but the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro (4GB RAM) is much better value for money. Which phone should you buy? Depends on how much you want to spend! But if that is not a constraint then we recommend the Samsung Galaxy S8

Water-resistant (IP 68 certification), and with Gorilla Glass 5 protection on both front and rear

Relatively comfortable to hold for a display this large in size

Apart from fingerprint recognition, you also have iris or facial recognition options for unlocking the device - iris is blazing fast, but requires some careful alignment - facial recognition works pretty well, but does require good lighting

The new on-screen navigation works well and buttons can finally be re-mapped - the home button has nice haptic feedback

The camera is state-of-the-art and pretty much the same as the already great camera on the S7, with one notable improvement - low light photography - the new Multi-Frame Image Processing delivers noticeably cleaner and sharper low light photos - overall now, this camera is right up there with the best in the business - the iPhone 7 and the Google Pixel

With its bold, exquisite, elongated shape, and borderless "infinity" display, the Galaxy S8 is one gorgeous piece of technology - arguably the best designed Android phone to date

The exceptionally bright Infinity display is gorgeous, and a chart-topper in terms of sunlight visibility - and colors are even punchier than before

Samsung's TouchWiz software is now more polished than ever, and gives a thoughtfully conceived software experience

You can also use the phone as a mobile workstation with the DeX desktop dock - creating an Android "desktop" experience - which could be pretty handy

The new 18.5:9 aspect ratio for the display works great for portrait gaming, browsing and multi-tasking

The Exynos chipset powering the phone delivers a chart-topping performance in both CPU and GPU benchmarks - the Mali-G71 MP20 GPU is impressive too - overall, the performance is class leading, and brimming with horsepower

The front camera is very good too, and a major upgrade from the S7 in terms of image quality - Samsung has also included a big collection of filters, stickers and dynamic facial effects to raise your selfie game

Good audio quality

Very good battery life, a little better than the already good battery life of the Galaxy S7

Samsung's AI Engine Bixby is a decent add-on too, although a lot of the functionality, including voice activation will come in later

The S8+ is is really versatile when it comes to connectivity too with things like Gigabit LTE support, bluetooth audio streaming to two devices simultaneously, and presence of DisplayPort video output over Type-C

Nice, utilitarian (though not exceptional) design and good build quality, as has been the case with the entire Redmi Note series

In spite of the large screen, the phone remains quite ergonomic because of the tall, minimal-bezel form factor

MIUI interface over Android is snappy, and offers some added features such as dual apps and second space - with dual apps, one can run separate accounts of the same service/app and the second space functionality provides separate user experiences for example for work and home

Stellar performance - the single most defining aspect for the Note 5 Pro may be the excellent new chip that powers it - the Snapdragon 636 - in short, in terms of both benchmarks, and real life use, it blows every other phone in the price bracket out of the water - be it the loading times for heavy games, opening multiple apps or just switching between multiple heavy apps and games - the phone simply sails through everything

The heat management is excellent too - the phone hardly gets warm even after playing games on the phone for an hour straight

Very good set of dual cameras at the rear - you have a 12MP primary camera (Sony IMX486) with a sensor size of 1.25um and an aperture of f/2.2 - the secondary 5MP camera is used for depth sensing only and has a sensor size of 1.12um with f/2.0 aperture - in ample lighting conditions, the camera captures a good amount of details and has a punchy colour reproduction - low light image capabilities are equally good and the camera has good dynamic range - even the portrait (bokeh) images look better than most of its competitors - they carry plenty of details and the background blur is also quite good

Overall, this is the arguably the best camera phone in this price bracket now, having a slight edge over the existing top camera phones in the bracket, like the Xiaomi Mi A1

Very good front camera too - takes good images in all kinds of lighting conditions - you also get software based portrait image, which lets you take that ‘Bokeh’ image with background blur and is decent

Good audio quality through both headphones, and the speaker

Good call quality

Stellar battery life - still runs for two days straight, continuing the tradition of the Redmi Note series

On the whole, Redmi Note 5 Pro offers everything you need from this price bracket - superior performance, excellent battery life and a good camera - simply put, this is almost a complete package when it comes to mid-range smartphone

2-minute Review [Negatives]

The new fingerprint reader position at the back will certainly raise more than a few eyebrows - it's too high up and right next to the camera - which is not the most convenient placement

The all-glass body is quite slippery, if you don't use a case

While the 18.5:9 aspect ratio is futuristic, and certainly comes in handy while browsing, and gaming, but most video/image content is still not made for such a wide screen, so will usually be wasteful of the extra space

The design is simple and works, but is largely a continuation of the old Redmi Note design - it's not a gorgeous, stand out device by by any means

While MIUI is one of the nicer Android UIs, it does have some bloat in terms of unneeded apps - and a lot of people still prefer a more stock Android approach

While the cameras are excellent in still photography, they are only average as far as video recording goes

Still continues with the old micro USB standard, there is no modern USB Type-C support

Expert Reviews

For the most part, Samsung’s Galaxy S8/+ are slam dunks. They are brilliantly designed, brimming with horsepower and have beautiful screens.